17 Jul
2016
17 Jul
'16
1:18 p.m.
On Jul 17, 2016, at 3:37 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
I'd also very much like to know this too. I have three of these things and would like
not to lose them to a battery leak. I have done zero investigation so far apart from
taking a look and not seeing a visible battery problem. But I was hoping to do a battery
sweep later this summer, and these were among the ones I wanted to seriously look at
de-batterying. Anyone here successfully replaced the battery? I honestly haven't
checked the manuals to see if there are any notes on this, there might be. I think I have
the SAMS pamphlet on the QX-10 as well, which might say. I'll look around and report
back if I see anything relevant.
-Paul
On Jul 17, 2016, at 3:29 PM, Terry Stewart
<terry at webweavers.co.nz> wrote:
Hi Jules
I found removing my QX-10's battery stopped the machines working. I tried
replacing it with a lithium battery after disabling the recharging circuit
but that didn't work either.
In the early days of amateur radio transmitters with embedded microprocessors, some idiot
manufacturers put the firmware (all of it) in battery backed RAM. So if the battery went
dead, you had a boat anchor, not a radio.
I hope that sort of thing isn't what you're dealing with here...
paul